Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nowhere Land' Home Field Advantage: The long trip to Ithaca January 16, on the heels of Harvard's 64-57 victory over Columbia, played a major factor in the Crimson's unimpressive, 75-50 loss to Cornell...
...Fatigue was a factor," Roby said. "It was the final game of seven games in fifteen days. We just...
...nation's homeless population has risen by 25% in the past year, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless. Desperately seeking relief from the killing cold, the homeless filled shelters to overflowing as the windchill factor in several major cities dropped below zero...
What causes SAD is a mystery. Experts suspect there is a genetic factor, because more than two-thirds of those with the syndrome have a close relative with a mood disorder. Also baffling is the exact role that the absence or presence of light plays in seasonal mood shifts. Among the theories: a disturbance in the body's natural clock and abnormal production of melatonin, a hormone manufactured in the brain, and serotonin, a chemical that helps transmit nerve impulses...
...offspring's sex; great excitement, he reasoned, produced a boy. In the 1920s, scientists confirmed the existence of human sex chromosomes, two of the 46 chromosomes people normally carry. Ordinarily, women have two X chromosomes, whereas men have an X and a Y. In 1959 the sex determining factor was traced to the Y chromosome. But it was still unclear whether the "switch" consisted of one gene or many...